This is a good point, yet misleading - because making random changes to adapted systems is almost always bad, and we can think of unintended consequences as big, random changes to adapted systems.https://twitter.com/robertwiblin/status/1326617091835912202 …
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If you go through every chemical compound in a laboratory store and have a person eat it, you will occasionally hit on something like sodium iodide that can make you smarter.https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/opinion/04kristof.html …
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But for every one sodium iodide you'll hit thousands of things that kill you in a variety of unusual ways. Most things in any category are toxic and bad for you unless they have some degree of selection via a history of trail-and-error or some other optimization process.
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Civilizational Competence can be defined as the ability to filter out the toxic stuff with less trial-and-error; more truth, more happiness, more health, more value in our lives, and all without having to repeatedly burn our hands on various hot stoves.
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